IF ANYTHING CAN EXPLODE, LEAK, CONTAMINATE…
It WILL !
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LNG explosion hurls huge chunks of shrapnel hundreds of meters in major gas storage site
State and federal officials are still baffled as to what caused a massive explosion at a liquefied natural gas facility on the Washington-Oregon border near the small town of Plymouth.
“Early Monday, a ‘processing vessel’ at the Williams facility near the small town of Plymouth, Washington, exploded, spraying chunks of shrapnel as heavy as 250 pounds as far as 300 yards, according to local emergency responders,” Reuters reported.
“The flying debris pierced the double walls of a 134-foot LNG tank on site, causing leaks. Five workers were injured, and local responders warned that vapors from the leaks could trigger a more devastating, second explosion. A county fire department spokesman said authorities were concerned a second blast could level a 0.75 mile ‘lethal zone’ around the plant.”
The blast injured at least five employees at the plant and ruptured a massive LNG storage tank, prompted the authorities to evacuate the entire town of Plymouth and everyone else within a 3.2-km (2 mile) zone of the plant, AP reported.
On January 12, 2014 FIRE-EARTH said:
If Anything Can Explode, Leak, Contaminate…
Estimated 100,000 HAZMAT storage sites across the U.S. can potentially explode, leak, contaminate the environment—FIRE-EARTH
United States is dotted with an estimated 100,000 HAZMAT storage sites containing one or more of deadly substances including radioactive, biohazardous, toxic, explosive, flammable, asphyxiating, corrosive, oxidizing, pathogenic, or allergenic materials, as well as herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers that don’t fall into those categories.
Some of the substances (hazchems), which include more than 200 types of dioxins, are so lethal that even a small leak into the water supply could kill or permanently harm millions of people, before they are detected.
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- If Anything Can Explode, Leak, Contaminate… January 12, 2014